Email : ashutosh@iimshillong.ac.in
Office Ph.: +91 364 2308069
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Associate Professor, Chairperson - Admissions, Ph.D., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
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Email : ashutosh@iimshillong.ac.in
Office Ph.: +91 364 2308069
Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources and Communications
Human Resource Management, Self and Group Dynamics, Team Building and Leadership, HR Analytics, Human Capital Management, Leadership Stories, Research Methodology & Tails of Starup Failures.
If talent is everywhere, why do organisations struggle to find the right people? This question has shaped my academic journey and continues to guide my research, teaching and industry engagement.
I pursued my MPhil and PhD at the School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. My research in Economic Analysis of Human Resource Decision Making examined labour markets, skill gaps, employability and the relationship between human potential and organisational opportunity. My academic journey took me through TISS and the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, before I joined IIM Shillong in 2019, where I currently serve as Associate Professor.
My research lies at the intersection of Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Personnel Economics, focusing on AI in recruitment, HR analytics, talent development, workforce transformation, leadership and entrepreneurship in India.
I believe management is best understood through people and their stories. My teaching spans HRM, Organisational Behaviour, Leadership, HR Analytics and Human Capital Management, alongside distinctive courses such as Leadership Stories and Tales of Startup Failure. Through real-world cases, experiential learning and storytelling, I connect management concepts with organisational realities.
Beyond the classroom, I contribute to institutional leadership, admissions, executive education and organisational consulting, bridging academic insights and industry challenges.
My enduring pursuit is to understand how people and organisations can realise their full potential.
Work Experience
My professional journey spans academia, management education, institutional leadership and organisational consulting. Beginning at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and subsequently at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, I joined IIM Shillong in 2019, where I currently serve as Associate Professor. My work connects research on Personnel Economics, Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour with the practical challenges of managing people and organisations. Beyond teaching and research, I have led institutional initiatives in admissions, alumni relations and executive education, and collaborated with organisations on HR strategy, organisational restructuring, workforce development and leadership. I particularly value translating academic insights into actionable organisational solutions.
Journal Publications
2025
2024
2023
2022
Before 2021
Book Chapters
Consulting & Applied Research
60+ Consulting Assignments | 15 years
My consulting journey began in 2011 with strategic planning for MESCO, a Mumbai non-profit, and CSR support for the Shipping Corporation of India. My early research took me to workers at the edges of the economy, from home-based garment workers in North India to the unorganised workforce of Navi Mumbai. I also studied non-standard employment for UNI Global Union and family health innovation in Bihar with Northwestern University and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Over time, my work moved closer to the heart of organisations. I designed HR policies and manpower plans for Bharat Dynamics and Chenna Valley Power Project, conducted an HR audit for Power Finance Corporation, benchmarked compensation for APMDC, and contributed to the service-oriented transformation of the Telangana State Police Academy, Dr Reddy foundation, AMTRON.
Today, much of my work is rooted in Northeast India. I have led restructuring at Assam Industrial Development Corporation, supported business transformation at Assam Inland Waterways Corporation, assessed eight airports for the Airports Authority of India, developed plans for power and mining value chains in Nagaland for SIDBI, and strengthened Farmer Producer Organisations under IFAD.
Management Development Programmes
20,000+ Participant Hours | 25+ Organisations
Organisations depend on teams that work well together and on leaders who turn strategy into results. My programmes and sessions are designed to build exactly these capabilities.
My work with managers covers team dynamics, communication, collaboration, decision-making, strategic thinking, people management and leadership development. Every programme follows an experiential, learning-by-doing approach. Participants work through realistic challenges and then use structured reflection to understand how they lead, how they influence others, and how they can become more effective. The result is cohesive teams, stronger leaders, and managers ready to help their people perform at their best.
25+ Commissioned Reports
Much of my research has taken shape as reports commissioned by the organisations that needed answers. It began in 2011 with a strategic plan for MESCO and a series of CSR reports for the Shipping Corporation of India. Soon I was writing about the changing world of work: non-standard employment for UNI Global Union, home-based garment workers for INDITEX, Navi Mumbai’s unorganised sector for CIDCO, and urban youth for UN-Habitat.
My reports then turned to institutions. I co-authored HR policy and manpower planning reports for Bharat Dynamics and Chenab Valley Power Project, an HR audit for Power Finance Corporation, a compensation benchmarking study for APMDC, and a blueprint for reinventing the Telangana State Police Academy. Along the way, I contributed to studies for the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Tata Teleservices, Maharashtra Fire Services and Dr. Reddy’s Foundation.
Each report began with a question and ended with usable evidence.
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An M.Psy. and D.Phil. (Psychology) from the Center for Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad. Prior to joining the Institute he had made a stint in the Consulting while working on a CSR assignment of the HONDA Cars, previously worked at the G.B.Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad as a Lecturer and the Center for Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad. Prof Dwivedi received the DAAD Research Fellow in Center for Modern India Studies, Faculty of Management, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Associate Professor, IIM Shillong
Ph.D., University of Allahabad
Shri Vivek Singh is a public policy and communications professional. He was serving as OSD (Officer on Special Duty) to the Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister. He has been a part of the FM’s team in the last 5 Union Budgets and also worked in the Raksha Mantri’s office from November 2018 to May 2019. He was a corporate banker before joining the government.
He is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), ICAI and IIM Shillong. He is a regular contributor of articles and opinion pieces in leading business dailies where he writes on macro-economy and policy-related topics. While at IIM-Shillong, he was a part of the Student Council and won the Gold Medal for being the Best All-rounder and making the ‘Most Positive Contribution to Campus Life’.
पूर्व ओएसडी, केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री,
पूर्व छात्र, आई.आई.एम. शिलांग
Mousumi Bhattacharya is an Associate professor in finance whose research interest spans the field of FINTECH and Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructurings, Corporate Finance, Business Valuation, Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, Banking and Financial Econometrics. She has done her post graduate degree in business finance, M.Phil. and PhD from University of Calcutta and she was a rank holder at both M.Phil. and post-graduation level. She also has a diploma in business finance from ICFAI University. She has more than 50 scholarly research publications in peer reviewed journals. She is currently the Editor in Chief of आईआईएमएस जर्नल ऑफ मैनेजमेंट साइंस the journal of the Indian Institute of Management Shillong that publishes research contributions in all areas of management and its allied discipline.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Calcutta
Rohit Joshi is currently working as a Professor in the Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques area at IIM Shillong. He is a Fulbright fellow. He has done his Postdoctoral Research work at UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has obtained his Ph.D from Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has received Master in Technology from Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, in Industrial Engineering and his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Gold Medalist and the University topper in his M.Tech and B.Tech respectively. His areas of interest in consulting and teaching assignments include Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Six Sigma and Lean Thinking, Business Statistics, Project Management, Value-engineering, Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving.
Professor, Ph.D, IIT Delhi,Postdoc – UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Maneesh Jaikrishna is currently serving as Regional Vice President for Middle East, APAC and Africa at Embross. Prior to this, he had had an illustrious 21 years career at SITA as the Vice President & General Manager for Indian Subcontinent, Dubai, Eastern & Southern Africa. He brings with him an extensive leadership experience in building organizations from ground up, business transformation and leading multi-functional teams in medium sized and large organizations across 30+ countries across ME, APAC, Indian Subcontinent & Africa while growing profitable businesses in the global Travel & Transport Industry. He has been instrumental in enabling win-win business outcomes through application of advance technology led IT systems and services to improve the travel experience, safety, security and operational efficiency for his airport, airline, government and other industry stakeholders.
Recipient of several awards, he had been nominated to SITA Board for 16 years and currently is an ExCo member in Embross. He has authored several articles, white papers as the media spokesperson which have been covered extensively in leading national and international publications. He had also been nominated to the Sectoral Innovation Council of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and as a member in the FICCI Civil Aviation Committee.
He holds a first class first B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics & Telecommunications of Mumbai University, and also an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from IMD Business School, Switzerland.
Regional Vice President for Middle East,
APAC and Africa at Embross
Shri. Ashutosh Dikshit has over 16 years of professional experience in the roles of Presales, Innovation Consulting, Marketing and Program Management. During his career, he has worked across organizations such as Deloitte, IBM, Wipro Technologies, Birlasoft and University College London. In his current role, Ashutosh leads the CxO and Executive Briefing Program for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in London. He is an alumnus of IIM Shillong (PGP 2008-10) and is one of the winners of the prestigious Global Peter Drucker Challenge (2015).
CxO Advocacy and Executive Marketing - Senior Manager EMEA,
Amazon Web Services & Alumnus, IIMS
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic and curator resident in Kolkata. She graduated in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, followed by an MFA and PhD in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. She is currently Professor at the Department of Printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
She is author of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking published by DAG, New Delhi and Foreign & Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking with LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Her curatorial projects include a soul (un)gendered: Anupam Sud – A Retrospective for DAG MODERN & KNMA, Delhi in 2019-20; Ghare Baire at the Old Currency Building, Kolkata for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; Popular Prints and the Freedom Struggle at the Drishyakala Museum, Red Fort, Delhi for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; the landmark exhibition Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan for the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE in 2014; and six editions of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking for DAG MODERN, India from 2012-18.
प्रोफ़ेसर,
Ravindra Bharati University
Shri Atul Chandrakant Kulkarni is an Independent Management and Strategy Consultant in Infrastructure domain with special focus on Maritime Industry.
He has been advising various domestic and international clients on Feasibility Study, Project Master Plan, Business Plan, Operations and Strategy. He serves as Director on the boards of Eurasia Special Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Defense Equipment), Varti Agro Pvt Ltd. (Exports of Fresh Fruits), 3.Yuva Vikas Society (Skill Development), etc. He is also associated in the advisory committees and governing councils/boards of SNDT University, Mumbai, Adi Sankara Group of Institutions, Kerala, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, among others.
He had earlier been associated in various roles including ‘C Level’ position with Chowgule Ports & Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., V R Marine Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Indian Ports Association, Gas Authority of India Limited, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd, Ministry of Shipping, GoI, Camlin Ltd. and many others over his 3-decade professional career.
He is also Chairman of a Public Charitable Trust SEIL (Students’ Experience in Inter-state Living) focusing on National Integration.
Management Consultant,
Director Eurasia Special Technologies Ltd
Shri Shishir Bajoria is a well-known Industrialist and the head of S K Bajoria Group – manufacturing ceramics for the steel industry in India, UK, USA, Germany, China. His businesses also include insurance services involving health and travel insurance administration, claim settlement, insurance and re-insurance broking; as well as an Art Gallery.
He has been the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce- Kolkata, Honorary Vice Counsel for Denmark in Eastern India and has also been a Director of the State Industrial Development Corporations of Orissa (IPICOL) and West Bengal (WBIDC). He has been Knighted by the Governments of Denmark in 1998 and Italy in 2006.
Chairman Board of Governors, IIM-S
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